Forensic Medicine specialist Prof. Dr Şebnem Korur Fincancı is an academic and activist working in the field of human rights and, in particular, the ban on Torture and Ill-Treatment. She is the elected president of the Turkish Medical Association (TMA). Prof. Dr Şebnem Korur Fincancı’s opinion, which she expressed in Read more…
Freedom of expression and the right to assembly are among the areas of freedoms that have narrowed down the most in recent years, through frequent and various violations touching upon the essence of the right as well the emergence of the disproportionate nature of these practices. Not only during the Read more…
Strengthening Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Groups As part of the project on “Strengthening Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Groups,” which is being supported by The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights by the EU Delegation to Turkey, the Association for Monitoring for Equal Rights (AMER) will host an international conference Read more…
We are here to stand in solidarity with our dear friend Lawyer Öztürk Türkdoğan who has been the co-chair of Human Rights Association (HRA/İHD) for 15 years and has dedicated more than 35 years of his life to addressing Turkey’s fundamental human rights problems and helping the victims of human Read more…
As the Association for Monitoring Equal Rights, we aim to hold the first of our “In Search of Equality” webinar series, which we plan to hold every year for the Human Rights Week, in 2021 as 4 sessions online on 2, 4, 6 and 8 December with the theme of Read more…
Osman Kavala has been behind bars for 1413 days. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), will meet tomorrow to hold its quarterly routine meeting. The measures that could be Read more…
Human rights belong to everyone. But those who work to ensure that we can claim our rightsare increasingly harassed, threatened, or jailed. In Turkey, the climate is particularlyworrying. While the human rights record of the country has long been worrisome, since the2016 coup attempt, all critical human rights defenders – Read more…
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak had reached the level of a global pandemic. While United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on governments to take urgent action to stop the spread of the virus, with the understanding that such an exceptional situation would Read more…
Human Rights Defenders Solidarity Network in Turkey components Association for Monitoring Equal Rights (Turkey), Civil Rights Defenders (Sweden), Truth Justice Memory Center (Turkey), Human Rights Association (Turkey), Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (Turkey), Life Memory Freedom Association (Turkey), Media and Law Studies Association (Turkey), Netherlands Helsinki Committee (Netherlands), P24 Association for Independent Journalism (Turkey), Research Institute Read more…
We demand that the related articles in the bill be withdrawn and that such bills be not drawn up without receiving the views of social partners.